I usually update every week but sometimes it took me a month, that was more than 700 updates easily. No hitches, everything was fine after reboot. I wonder what kind of hellish package structure you have installed.
Yeah, it’s probably my own fault. I tend to …over-tinker(?) when I have something as deeply customizable as Arch/KDE. Bazzite has saved me from that for the most part, though I do like getting my KDE just right.
But yeah, with large updates I will sometimes get an error about “libalpm” or something, and then when I try to run yay again, the db.lck is present so I have to delete it, blah blah blah… Rollback with timeshift and try again, this time exclude everything but /core and /extra, get those installed, reboot, then install the rest.
This time I got it working pretty quickly due to previous experiences. The worst was the time I did it while not having enough space on my hdd to cover the entire update (but didn’t realize until after it already started). That was a fun day lol.
Timeshift was/is a lifesaver on that laptop. Though I think having it as a fallback did make me a little more reckless with my tinkering… But I’m relatively new to Linux, and that’s how I learn.
BTRFS snapshots are a god send. I really have no idea how many times they’ve saved me from a complete reinstall. One did happen about a week ago, I completely messed up my Void install. Bring back snapshots with Timeshift, everything is good to go!
Yeah, life saver. If you like impossible to break OS, check out an immutable/Atomic distro (I’m on Bazzite). One command to rollback to previous build.
rpm-ostree will change your life… Lol JK. It’s cool though.
I usually update every week but sometimes it took me a month, that was more than 700 updates easily. No hitches, everything was fine after reboot. I wonder what kind of hellish package structure you have installed.
Yeah, it’s probably my own fault. I tend to …over-tinker(?) when I have something as deeply customizable as Arch/KDE. Bazzite has saved me from that for the most part, though I do like getting my KDE just right.
But yeah, with large updates I will sometimes get an error about “libalpm” or something, and then when I try to run yay again, the db.lck is present so I have to delete it, blah blah blah… Rollback with timeshift and try again, this time exclude everything but /core and /extra, get those installed, reboot, then install the rest.
This time I got it working pretty quickly due to previous experiences. The worst was the time I did it while not having enough space on my hdd to cover the entire update (but didn’t realize until after it already started). That was a fun day lol.
Timeshift was/is a lifesaver on that laptop. Though I think having it as a fallback did make me a little more reckless with my tinkering… But I’m relatively new to Linux, and that’s how I learn.
BTRFS snapshots are a god send. I really have no idea how many times they’ve saved me from a complete reinstall. One did happen about a week ago, I completely messed up my Void install. Bring back snapshots with Timeshift, everything is good to go!
Yeah, life saver. If you like impossible to break OS, check out an immutable/Atomic distro (I’m on Bazzite). One command to rollback to previous build.
rpm-ostree will change your life… Lol JK. It’s cool though.